University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 2, 1988
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Meese says he cannot recall payoffs described in memo
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Edwin Meese III said yesterday he didn't recall reading the portion of a memo on a $1 billion Iraqi pipeline project that referred to a payoff plan involving the Israeli Labor Party of former Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
The memo to Meese, from his longtime friend, attorney E. Robert Wallach, is the focus of a criminal investigation of Meese's activities by independent counsel James McKay that began nearly nine months ago.
After receiving Wallach's memo in 1985, Meese took no action in regard to the potential illegal activity mentioned in the memo, sources familiar with McKay's investigation said.
Meese said that since Friday, when the memo's existence was first reported in the Los Angeles Times, "there has been a cascade of misinformation, headlines, half-truths, innocuo, and misunderstanding of the law."
Meese read a five-page statement to reporters but refused to answer questions.
Gunmen surrender,free hostages
LUMBERTON, N.C. — Two heavily armed American Indians who took over a newspaper office yesterday to protest the death of a black jail inmate released their last seven hostages last night after a 10-hour standoff.
The Associated Press
"It's over. The hostages have been released," Jim Suhrue, Gov. Jim Martin's press secretary, said shortly after 8 p.m. the governor scheduled an evening news conference.
The Indians, who had identified themselves as Tuscarora-Cherokees, had demanded to speak with Martin.
But Charles Dunn, deputy director of the State Bureau of Investigation, said the hostage takers did not talk directly with Martin before releasing the last hostages from the offices of The Robesonian newspaper.
"The governor did not go directly to him (Eddie Hatcher, one of the two gunmen)." Dunn said. "We didn't want him to do that because it would set a precedent. The governor did agree to look into the allegations."
Ray Little Turtle, a Lumbee Indian who was part of the negotiations, said Hatcher and Timothy Jacobs had
been taken into custody by FBI agents and would be transported to a jail outside Robeson County.
The gunmen had said they would release the hostages if they could speak to Martin, one of the hostages released earlier had said. One gunman "repeatedly told the hostages that he doesn't want to hurt anybody," said the former hostage, Eric Prevattle. "He said he was very sorry this had to come down to this."
Seventeen people were in the offices of The Robesonian newspaper when the two men barged in about
9:30 a.m., Prevate said. Most of them were released within the first few hours of the crisis. State Rep. Sidney Locks, who was involved in some of the hostage negotiations, said that seven people were in the last group of hostages released when the gunmen gave up.
Prevate said the Indians were protesting the death in the Robeson County Jail of black inmate Billy McCullough because they said the death wasn't adequately investigated. It was not known when McCullough died or what he was convicted of.
Sunken barge produces no oil slick
News Roundup
The Associated Press
ANACORTES, Wash. — About 42,000 gallons of heavy oil spilled from a barge that capsized in northwest Washington's inland waters, but authorities could find no trace of it, Coast Guard Capt. John Felton said yesterday.
The oil leaked from one of the barge's 12 compartments when a hole in the floor broke.
foot-long vessel capsized Sunday off Fidalgio Island, Felton said. He said the oil probably was in ribbons in the 42-degree water of Rosario Strait.
The bunker-grade oil, slightly heavier than water, probably will remain suspended, he said. The barge carried 384,000 gallons of oil.
"It's possible this will disappear into the water column and, eventually, biodegrade," Felton said.
REAGAN ADDRESS TONIGHT: President Reagan's address tonight from the Oval Office on aid for the contras will be televised live by Cable News Network, but ABC, CBS and NBC said last night they had not decided whether to broadcast the speech.
Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov said Malenkov died a few days ago, but provided no other details.
STALIN HENCHMAN DIES: Georgi M. Malenkov, Josef Stalin's henchman in the purges of the 1930s who served as his successor before being sent into political oblivion, has died at the age of 86, a Soviet official said yesterday. Foreign
ISRAELIS KILL ARABS: Israelis killed two Arabs and wounded three others yesterday when they opened fire on a crowd of stone-throwing Palestinians who had trapped a convoy of soldiers and civilians, the army said. In addition, soldiers wounded four Arabs in two other clashes, a military spokesman reported U.S.VETOES RESOLUTION: The United States
vetoed a Security Council resolution yesterday calling for U.N.-sponsored peace talks on the Middle East, saying it would interfere with a U.S. diplomatic initiative. The vote was 14-1. Israel and the U.S. reject the idea of a U.N.-sponsored Middle East peace conference as a substitute for direct talks.
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POLAND RAISES PRICES: Poland's government yesterday imposed sweeping price increases that raised food prices by 40 percent and rents by half.
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